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Android, iOS Top Developer Mindshare As Lead Platforms, But RIM's Not So Far Behind, Finds Global Developer Survey
Jan 23, 1:03PM
When it comes to developing for mobile platforms, Android and iOS -- the top two mobile platforms by device sales worldwide -- are also first in the mind of app makers. But surprisingly, beleaguered BlackBerry isn't so far behind: an indication that, if RIM really connects on BB10, it could have a shot at some kind of comeback, or at least the support of developers to make sure it has the content ecosystem to attract consumers.Cisco Buys Israeli Mobile Startup Intucell For $475 Million Cash, And Bessemer Gets Nearly Half
Jan 23, 1:01PM
Bessemer Venture Partners racked up a huge win today. Two years ago it invested $6 million in exchange for nearly half the equity of Israeli startup Intucell, whose networking tech lets carriers handle more mobile traffic. Today, Cisco bought Intucell for $475 million, and BVP tells me it will take nearly half that sale price.Virtualization Giant VMware Partners With And Puts $30M Into Data Center Automation Company Puppet Labs
Jan 23, 12:30PM
Puppet Labs, a data center automation company, is announcing today that virtualization giant (and previous investor) VMware has invested $30 million in the company. This brings the company's total funding to $46 million. Puppet Labs' other investors include True Ventures, Cisco, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Radar Partners. The company declined to reveal the valuation in the round, but we hear it was a "healthy increase" from the last round in 2011.Yandex Search App Wonder Uses Nuance Voice, Calls Up APIs From Foursquare And More, Screenshots Reveal
Jan 23, 11:05AM
Earlier this month we broke the news that Russia's search giant Yandex was eyeing up a move into the mobile, social search space with the development of an app called Wonder, which drew on Facebook data to let people search for local places and content, incorporating what their friends have also visited and consumed. Now a source has passed us some screenshots and more details about how it looks right now, how it works, and who is behind the project.U.K. 4G/LTE Spectrum Bidding Gets Underway, Networks Expected To Launch By Late Spring/Summer
Jan 23, 11:04AM
It's taken a long time for the U.K. telecoms regulator to be in a position to fire the starting gun on the auction for 4G-suitable spectrum but bidding to acquire the up to 250 MHz of additional mobile spectrum in the 800Mhz and 2.6GHz frequencies has now got underway. The total reserve price for the spectrum has been set at £1.36 billion.Spraffl Launches As An Anonymous, Location-Based 'Social Experiment'
Jan 23, 10:42AM
Spraffl is a new iOS app that's attempting to buck the trend of real name policy, or even semi-identifiable pseudonyms, in favour of an entirely anonymous social network, tied to a user's location. I say social network, when in actual fact the UK startup is dubbing the app a 'social experiment', and in some ways the concept is reminiscent of the anarchic and experimental nature of the Internet of yesteryear. And that may be both its appeal and its ultimate downfall.Speaktoit, The Siri-Like Assistant, Goes Premium To Let You Teach It Your Every Command
Jan 23, 10:28AM
Speaktoit Assistant, a Siri alternative that also competes with a host of other AI and natural language-driven 'personal assistants', such as Maluuba, is rolling out a premium version of its mobile app to let users teach it new commands. Debuting first on Android and costing $2 per month or $20 per year (which, frankly, seems slightly on the high side) it enables the way you interact with Speaktoit to be customized, essentially changing the expected input and resulting output when speaking to the app.Nokia Reportedly Lining Up 'True' PureView Windows Phone For Launch This Year — Codenamed EOS
Jan 23, 10:19AM
The Nokia 808 PureView was arguably the best phone to be unboxed at last year's Mobile World Congress tradeshow. Except it wasn't, because the handset was running the legacy Symbian OS. But, according to the Verge, Nokia is planning a "true PureView Windows Phone" this year -- which will have a similar sensor to the one used in the 808 PureView.Semetric Scores $4.7M To Turn Up The Volume On Musicmetric, Its Big Data Analytics Service
Jan 23, 8:28AM
More money for big data analytics -- and a sign that, as the space matures, we will see more segmentation of what kinds of big data is getting analysed. Semetric, the UK/LA-based company behind the music data tracking service Musicmetric, has today announced £3 million ($4.7 million) in new investment, which it says that it will use to further expand its music service, as well as other big data products specifically for the entertainment industry. New investor Imperial Innovations Group and existing backer Pentech Ventures both participated. Semetric has raised $7.4 million since being founded in 2008.App Performance Company AppDynamics Raises $50M, Plans IPO
Jan 23, 8:01AM
AppDynamics has raised $50 million in a round lead by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) for the expansion of its application performance monitoring service. The Series D round also included AppDynamics current investors: Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.ParkMe Raises Funding From Angeleno Group, Releases New Version Of Its Real-Time Parking App
Jan 23, 8:01AM
It was just less than a year ago that ParkMe (formerly Parking In Motion) launched to provide real-time parking data to visitors at SXSW in Austin. After expanding to more than 500 markets over the past several months, ParkMe is announcing today that it has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Angeleno Group, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm.RIM Launches BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 For Government & Corporate Clients
Jan 23, 6:40AM
Research In Motion just announced that BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES 10), a device management system, is now available for government agencies and corporate clients.Free, Open-Source Digital Textbook Provider, Boundless, Releases Its Content Under Creative Commons
Jan 23, 6:29AM
Since first emerging early last year, Boston-based startup Boundless has been on a mission to give students a free alternative to the financial and physical costs of bulky backpacks brimming with pricey hard-copy textbooks. Co-founders Ariel Diaz, Brian Balfour and Aaron White believe that the incumbents, the old-school textbook publishers (the top four of which still control the market) have been driving up the cost of educational content for years, so Boundless has been fighting the Powers That Be by offering a free, digital alternative culled from existing, open educational resources.Microsoft Korea Reportedly Shuts Down Its Seoul-Based R&D Unit
Jan 23, 6:22AM
Microsoft Korea will close its research and development unit by the end of next month, where its Asia R&D Center is based, reports Asiaone (h/t TNW). The company announced last year that its Asia-Pacific R&D Center will be headquartered in Beijing, which represents Microsoft's largest R&D investment outside of the U.S. The company plans to leverage the facility to develop China-based talent and research as a "core contributor" to its global portfolio of products and services. The center includes the Microsoft Advanced Technology Center (ATC), which was founded back in 2003.Ooyala Adds Twitter Integration, Signs ESPN As First Client To Embed Videos In Tweets
Jan 23, 5:01AM
Video distribution platform Ooyala wants to make videos available wherever users may be. That means enabling its customers to distribute their content onto all sorts of mobile phones and tablets and connected TVs and crap like that. But it also means distributing video directly into platforms like Twitter.FitStar Reinvents The Home Workout With Upcoming iPad App From NFL Tight End Tony Gonzalez
Jan 23, 5:00AM
FitStar, a fitness app startup backed by Floodgate and Google Ventures that uses the iPad to transform home video workouts, just announced its first creation. In it, Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez becomes a user’s personal trainer, leading them through about 60 different video exercises. The idea is that the iPad is much better suited toward helping people achieve their fitness goals. Unlike DVDs and videos, which are passive, the iPad can respond to a person’s changes in their workout habits. It can send reminders or offer custom combinations of exercises to meet their goals. Arriving this spring, the new FitStar app tracks a person’s progress through about 60 exercises in a regime that Gonzalez helped design. If they get lazy and slack off for three weeks, the app will start a person at a slightly easier level than where they left off. “I want people to feel like I’m really there with them and going through the workout with them,” Gonzalez said in an interview. “I’ll put in one liners and I try to keep it light and fun. I’ll say things like, ‘Hey, I haven’t seen you in awhile, but that’s OK. We’re going to go through this together.’” It also collects information about their age, weight and personal goals — whether those involve just staying in shape or training for a triathlon. The exercises don’t require any fancy equipment and can be done at home. It’s mostly your body weight that’s necessary. Gonzalez said he spent about two days filming all of the different exercises for the workout. “I was exhausted,” he said. “This workout — it can be for a beginner, or it can be for an expert.” The app also includes basic social features that let users share achievements with friends, so they stay engaged and maybe a bit competitive with workout buddies. It’s the first app built on FitStar’s platform, and the company will offer products down the line that appeal to different demographics and have other routines. FitStar is pursuing the freemium model that has been proven to work really successfully among mobile app developers. The Tony Gonzalez app is free, but the company will charge for premium content down the line. They add that this should be a fraction of the cost of most fitness DVDs without specifying further pricing details. FitStar was founded by former AOL and Digg executive MikeGoogle Expands Southeast Asian Presence With New Office In The Philippines
Jan 23, 4:50AM
Google announced today that it is opening a representative office in the Philippines that will be headed by country manager Narciso Reyes and based in Manila. Reyes, a former Friendster exec, was brought on as sales head in the Philippines by Google last November. The Mountain View-based company plans to start hiring for its new office and will post job listings on its local site in the next few days. According to InterAksyon.com, Google has been filling positions in the Philippines since last spring, when job listings for that country started popping up on Google Singapore's site.Chinese Government To Open Mediation Center For Online Piracy Disputes
Jan 23, 3:59AM
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) plans to establish a center that will deal with disputes over intellectual property (IP) and online copyright issues, reports Sina Tech (link via Google Translate).Peter Thiel & Reid Hoffman-Backed 100Plus Unveils Its First iPhone App, "A Life Coach In Your Pocket"
Jan 23, 3:19AM
Founded in late 2011, 100Plus set out to tap into the growing popularity of the Quantified Self movement to create a personalized, mobile health prediction platform to help Average Joes like you and me stay active and get healthy. Like some of today's better known activity and health trackers, like Fitbit, Jawbone's Up and RunKeeper, 100Plus wants to leverage our ever-present mobile devices to create a more accessible way to analyze, understand and digest our health data -- in turn, encouraging us to complete small, healthy actions, while receiving realtime feedback on how those actions affect their daily routines and long-term health.A French Artist Is Posting DIY Robot Parts So We Can Print Our Own Androids
Jan 23, 2:00AM
Gael Langevin wants to give you a robot. The French artist is posting 3D printer files for a humanoid robot he's building as he completes the various parts, allowing us all to create our very own plastic helper/lover with some ABS plastic, a few Arduino boards, and some motors.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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